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SLS - Strategic Leadership Systems, LLC   Strategic Leadership Systems, LLC provides bottom-line-driven management consulting for corporations and business owners. Our approach is simple:   • You will work with consultants who each have at least 25 years of experience relevant to your business challenges. • We work with you to determine the origins of problems and provide cause-and-effect solutions.   Leadership Training and Development Our team can help objectively evaluate your personnel, provide individualized action plans and help you develop the leadership you need to grow your organization and successfully execute your succession plan.   Strategic Planning The strategic plan is visionary, conceptual, and directional. We can help you develop the framework for explaining the business on an emotional level that can motivate and engage partners and subordinates to work beyond task assignments and to see the value of their contribution to a larger purpose for the firm.   International Relations Understanding the impact of global economic, political, cultural, social developments and security issues will provide you with the knowledge and insight to manage your business in the ever-changing global economy.   Plant and Executive Security Protocols Just one breach in physical plant security or an employee jeopardized in your parking lot can have huge adverse legal and public relations ramifications. Our team has both law enforcement and government intelligence experience, to deliver actionable information on worldwide best practices.   Crisis Management Training A crisis can hit any organization at any time -- a product recall, industrial accident, natural calamity, an executive indiscretion, or even plain old foot-in-mouth disease with a reporter in the room. SLS can help you install the right processes and training so you're ready turn any media inquiry into a positive, and any adverse event into a leadership opportunity.   Group Healthcare Placement/Consulting for the New Collectives For years, healthcare costs have increased faster than any other expense line on your books. Finally, there is some good news. The new healthcare funding pools will allow business owners to form collectives and purchase better coverage at a reasonable cost. SLS's experienced Capitol Hill team can guide you through the details and direct you to dependable resources that can provide plans that will meet your employees' needs, ensure their loyalty, and keep your expense ratio competitive.           Michael is a seasoned insurance executive with 36 years of claims, sales, and marketing experience. He has held the position of Assistant Vice President of Field claims Operations for Colonial Penn Insurance Company as well as several territorial claims management positions in several east coast states. He retired from Allstate in March 2010, after an exemplary career in sales management, achieving nine corporate sales leadership awards and regional recognition for his teaching and mentoring skills with subordinates and peer managers.   Michael earned a Masters degree in Leadership Development from Penn State University, School of Graduate Professional Studies, Great Valley, PA.; he was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the International Honor Society for Business School’s excellence in May of 2010. Michael holds Insurance certifications from the American College of Insurance, Malvern, PA., and a Bachelors of Science degree in Sociology, from Saint Joseph’s University, Phila. PA. Beyond the business area, Michael’s most recent post-academic accomplishments include co-authoring a chapter in the book, The Psychology of Workplace Technology for the prestigious Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Frontiers Series. The text has an expected publication date in the winter of 2012. He has received recent recognition for his research work in an updating of the manual, Leadership Models, Methods, and Applications, completed in 2011; and he made a brief contribution to the book, Full Range Leadership Development, published in 2010. Michael is a former resident of Villanova, Pennsylvania. He recently relocated to St. Johns, Fla. however spends one to two weeks a month in the firm’s Plymouth Meeting PA. Office.  He serves on the National Alumni Board for Saint Joseph’s University, Phila. PA (2009-present) and is Chairman of the Alumni Programs and Services committee. He has held other operational board positions including President of the pastoral council for St. Thomas of Villanova Church and the non-profit organization, The Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center, where he currently serves on the advisory board.                        Plymouth Meeting Center, 600 West Germantown Pike, Suite 400, Plymouth, Meeting, PA. 19462

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